Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-25

al, have held the offices and
! been called the leaders. 1t may
! turn out that this election will be the
! beginning of a new deal in state politics,
! for the people of Texas admire ability,
dash and courage, and will reward it in
| future regardless of the side it's pOssessor
may take in the pending canvass, which
! the Democratic party has declared to be
non. partisan The coming canvass will
! bring these young men together in the
most cordial relations, and we should not
! be surprised to see them working to-
gether il future political movements
! I Terrell Times.
Logic is stronger than gush.- Itasca
| Alliance Mail.
The zealots and blgots of both sides in
| the prohibition contest should be froWn-
ed down by all fair thinking people. If
a man wants to vote for the amendment
| he has perfect right to do SO; if against
1t, the responsibility of the action rests
alone with himself, and every self-con-
| stituted guardian of his actions should
| be treated with contempt. Thousands Of
good men and thousands of bad men will
| be arrayed upon either side in this strug-
| ~
the one is just as susceptible of success
full attack as the other Calvert Courier.
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Now we come to the question OF liquor
| Society has resolved that it is great and
growing social and moral curse, nuisance,
evil or Whatever other name you may be
pleased to call it, to be abated or wiped
out from the face of the earth. The law
has just as much right to say that man
! shall not sell or drink it as a beverage as
to say he shall not swallow arsenic for
suicide, go naked on the streets, whip
his wife, burn hi house, keep q mad dog,
carry concealed weapons, hamstring his
horse, or whistle during religious service.
What is the difference except
! that the sale and use Of liquor is q
| thousand times more hurtful to men,
! their families and to society at large than
any hundred other evils like those we
have enumerated? Isn't mans personal
! liberty Just as much taken away when he
is forbidden by law to play cards for
gain as when he is forbidden to drink
whisky? Some men play cards for money
who never touch liquor, and feel out
ragged that they have to gamble IN secret
to evade the laW-yet who says anything
about a violation of personal liberty when
these men are put in jailE or heavily
fined for tossing a few pieces of paste
! board with black spots on them?- Bur-
net Bulletin.
The manufacture and sale of liquors is,
by the amendment itself, recognized as
necessary and right, therefore it is not
the manufacture and sale that is wrong,
but the purpose for which they are manu-
faCtured and sold. What purpose then is
wrOng2 Evidently the purpose of bev-
erages, as that is the only purpose for
which they are used besides those per-
mitted by the amendment. Then is not
the intent of the law to prevent men from
using liquors as a beverage? To ask the
Question is to answer it. Then why not
pass laws to prohibit men from using
| liquors as beverages? Because then the
real nature of the law would be SO pal
pably plain that it would not stand
| ghost of a chance to be carried. It's
sumptuary nature would be SO evident
that any one would see it. Answer this
! if you CAM Wills Point Chronicle.
While there are many distinguished
| Democrats who have espoused the pro-
hibition cause in this state, yet they do
not constitute all the brains and infu-
enCe in the state and Democratic party,
SIS the following pyramid of distinguished
| young Democrats, who have announced
that they are aga INST prohibition in the
different parts of the state, will show:
Mills, Pope, Todd, Gibbs, Ireland, Stew
art, Chiffon, Sheppard, Harrison,
Robertson, Burgess, Han
cock, Houston,
Coke.
The following able and eloquent gen
tlemen compose the prohibition pyramid:
Reagan, Carroll, Culberson, M4xey, Lam
ham, Furman, Bailey, Wellborn,
Dohoney, H-rndon, Bonner,
Hare, Burleson, Light
foot, Wynne.
: Texarkana Times
a week ago we were told that the anti
| Prohibition state executive Committe at
Dallas had in their possession a circular
issued by Bishop Galloway of the Metho-
dist church showing that local option and
not prohibition was the right remedy for
the whisky evil, and that the good bish-
ops argument would soon beg spread
| broadcast thrOu- hout Texas for the edl-
tiCatiOn and conviction of the faithful.
We have wondered why the circular has
| been so long withheld, and now the de-
lay has been explained. The circular is
really strong prohibition document.
twas issued by the bishop in his ca
pacity of chairman of the prohibition
state executive committee of Mississippi.
He is simply so well satisfied with the
progress of local option that he hesitates
to endorse general movement, for fear
of weakening the cause, and especially
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option to possible complication with
state politics in the broader field.
Merely this and nothing more. 1t is
simply preference expressed for one
plan of procedure over another to attain
cherished Object Waco Day.
The Democratic state convention hav-
ing in its platform notified the people of
Texas that no man could be censured as
to his fealty to party on account OF his
| opinions upon this point, each one is